<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28.10.2016, at 12:50, Joost Schuttelaar <<a href="mailto:joost@joostschuttelaar.nl" class="">joost@joostschuttelaar.nl</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">I bit the bullet and ordered a maxed out MBP 15” (1TB drive instead of 2TB though).</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I’m completely torn over the new macbook, I have to touch one to know about it, I guess.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am on a 17” from 2011, put a 1TB SSD in about a year ago and since then it’s been great again. I think it’s a bit heavy.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">stuff I notice in daily use:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- SD-card slot is very good to have to transfer audio files from recorders (do this almost daily, or should)</div><div class="">- optical drive just sits there. no use for it.</div><div class="">- USB is so universal, lots of devices that are useful, use at least 3 different pieces of gear with USB every week, and often</div><div class="">- firewire is good, but I could do without. I have a special 400->800 cable for my RME FF400 anyway, so using an adapter or a special cable is no different. losing the cable is a showstopper anyway, so just take good care of it…</div><div class="">- never use Ethernet</div><div class="">- love the Magsafe adapter. will miss it. just love how the magnet snaps it into place. have actually tripped over the cable and disconnected it, a few times over the years.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m using a 2011 top of the line, non glossy display, maxed out on everything MBP — it cost me about 2700 €, so I’m not too worried about the price of the new models if they are better...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">love the weight and the look of the new 15”, looking forward to trying the screen and the keyboard. Right now I have no use for a touchstrip, but who knows what this may bring. I don’t like the look of those gamer laptops one bit. They look like they come with the smell of the unmade bedroom of a 16 year old...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I carry my MBP with me almost every day. I have thrown my backpack on the ground, dropped a holepunch on the palm rest — the Mac has some awful dents all over the place — and just works and works, five and a half years down the line…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">so we’ll see when I will finally need a new one. Some of you may remember that my last laptop was stolen after just 2 years, so this one has been really good for me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but I’m glad to read your discussion, although some of it could do with less emotions — it’s just a machine…;) (kidding. I know, I know, there is no such thing as “just” a machine!!)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>